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Enter the Lone Ranger · Beat 144 · permalink

Outdoor path

32:02–32:55 Registered 1949

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 32:0432:04Frame at 32:2732:27Frame at 32:5132:51Frame at 32:5532:55

Play from 32:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 85 · shots 278–281. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
outdoor_path (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Lone Ranger (named at t:32:42): man wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a black eye mask, light shirt, dark neckerchief visible, audible
  • Tonto (named at t:32:24): man with dark hair tied back, wearing a fringed shirt, possibly Native American visible, audible
  • older man with receding hairline and mustache, wearing a dark coat visible
Seen happening
  • Two men on horseback ride toward a wooden gate. [frame:1]
  • The masked man and the man in fringed clothing sit and talk outdoors. [frame:2]
  • The older man looks upward with a concerned expression. [frame:3]
  • The masked man smiles while seated indoors. [frame:4]
Also said
“The reason for the mask” 32:42 · “You sure got a job cut out for yourself, Reed. I mean, Lone Ranger.” 32:51
Seen
horse [frame:1], wooden gate [frame:1], black eye mask [frame:2], wide-brimmed hat [frame:2], fringed shirt [frame:2], wooden wall [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: identity, revenge, secrecy, partnership; style notes: black-and-white, medium and close-up shots, natural outdoor lighting, studio interior lighting

Two men on horseback approach a wooden gate; one wears a mask. A third man, older and unmasked, is shown in close-up. The masked man speaks with another man in fringed clothing, then smiles while seated indoors. Dialogue references Jim's injury, Cavendish, and the need to keep the Lone Ranger's identity secret.

“I'm going to go.” 32:03 · “He had a hard knock.” 32:22 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from Enter the Lone Ranger (1949) at 32:04 (passage 32:02–32:55); US record: No renewal found

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